Steve Jarding is a professor and political advisor, he was named Professor of the Year at the Harvard Kennedy School and his course Running for Office was twice nominated as the most influential class in America.  You can find Steve here:  Personal Website: https://www.stevejarding.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-jarding-14153515/ ➤ Books Mentioned In the Episode: - The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation — Drew Westen - The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics — Bruce Bueno de Mesquite & Alastair Smith - Dandelion Wine — Ray Bradbury ➤Chapters: 0:00 Introduction  2:43 Warm-up questions  14:03 Major threats to the 2024 election year 24:52 The future of liberal democracies  41:45 The best way to change the world 55:15 Important of charisma & communication in politics?  1:03:44 Quick closing questions  ➤ About The Podcast: At Dialog Liber (Free Dialogue) we talk with leaders from the Romanian society and explore together the nuances of the challenges around us. The mission of the podcast is to encourage open debates, to promote good books and long-term thinking, and to be a source of informed optimism for the people in the arena - those who are building solutions for Romania's problems. ➤ About Teodor: Teodor N. Cataniciu is a European entrepreneur, writer, and podcast host from Bucharest, Romania. He is a Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a Polaris fellow at the University of Austin, and an active opinion columnist writing on current affairs, building better cities, and advancing European unity. Teodor was named one of the best entrepreneurs under thirty-five by the Dutch Financial Times and has been selected as one of Romania’s 30 Under 30 by Forbes. He is a distinguished alumnus of the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University and a graduate of the University of Bucharest School of Law. He holds a finance-focused master of science from Columbia University. ➤ Also see the video version of this podcast on YouTube.com/@TeodorCataniciu ➤ You can follow us here: Website oficial: https://Teodor.com/podcast TikTok:  tiktok.com/@teodorcataniciu   Instagram: instagram.com/@teodorcataniciu Facebook: facebook.com/teodorcataniciu   LinkedIn:  linkedin.com/in/cataniciu Twitter: twitter.com/teodorcataniciu   ➤ Music: Intro Music: Four Seasons (Vivaldi) remixed by Will Borders  @willborders